46 Mr. William Phillips on the Chalk Cliffs near Dover . 
In the wolds of Lincolnshire that which is generally uppermost 
is white, and contains beds of flints. The lower is red. They are 
regularly stratified; and the latter rests upon a brown pebbly sand 
without organic remains, consisting of quartz and oxide of iron.* 
In the preceding pages, allusion has occasionally been made to 
certain of the organic remains which I discovered in the various 
beds and strata composing the cliffs I have attempted to describe. 
These remains being numerous, and some of them not having 
heretofore been noticed as occurring in chalk, I have prevailed on 
J. Parkinson, Esq. the author of “ The Remains of a former 
World,” &c. to receive the whole, together with an additional 
number from the green sand and blue marie, collected by my friend 
Luke Howard, and by him presented to me, with a view to his 
preparing a description of them for the Geological Society. To 
this I was impelled, not only because it secured a more faithful 
description of them than could otherwise be obtained, but also on 
account of my own inability to perform that task, never having given 
particular attention to this interesting branch of geological investi- 
gation. I am far from believing that I was able, during a short stay 
at Dover, to discover all the varieties of fossils enclosed in the cliffs 
in its neighbourhood, having found some that were new to me in the 
last hour of my search. I shall hereafter offer to the acceptance of 
the Geological Society, all such from amongst them, as may be 
worthy of a place in its museum. 
* Geological Transactions, Vol. III. p 3 394. 
